Support for UC Berkeley Graduate Students

The Institute awards and administers graduate student fellowships funded by its own endowments and by extramural sources. It also supports student through graduate research assistantships. In a typical year, the Institute awards twenty fellowships, administers thirty fellowships, and partially or fully funds over a hundred graduate student researchers. For descriptions of previous winning research topics, see the fellowship research from previous years.

Students who wish to learn more about obtaining dissertation funding should also see the Dissertation Proposal Workshop website.

IIS Postdoctoral Fellowship

UC Berkeley's Institute of International Studies (IIS) welcomes applications for a 2008-2009 post-doctoral fellowship relating to the theme: Global Energy Transitions: The International Political Economy and Security Implications of a Shift Away from Fossil Fuels. IIS seeks a fellow whose research will contribute to the following question: What are the global political, economic, and security implications of a partial shift from fossil fuels to other energy sources? (biofuels, nuclear, other renewables)

The deadline for all applications is Friday, April 4, 2008. Awards will be announced by the beginning of May.

IIS Dissertation Fellowships

The deadline for all applications is Monday, April 7, 2008. Awards will be announced by the end of May. Fellowship recipients must be advanced to candidacy or the equivalent by September 1, 2008.

John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies. This research fellowship is awarded annually to several UC Berkeley graduate students conducting research in comparative studies (analyzing similarities and differences among societies and states with respect to social, cultural, political, economic structures and policies), or international studies (analyzing relations among states, economies, and societies including patterns of these relationships in global and transnational systems).

Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. This award is made annually to a UC Berkeley registered graduate student who shows promise of advancing scholarship in the field of historical sociology, historical demography, or social history.

Reinhard Bendix Memorial Research Fellowship. This fellowship is given annually to a UC Berkeley registered graduate student who shows promise of advancing scholarship in the field of political and social theory or in historic studies of society and politics.

Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Fellowships

The Institute of International Studies is the Berkeley office of the campus-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. See information about IGCC funding opportunities.

Support for UC Berkeley Faculty

The Institute processes and administers faculty grants from government, foundation, and private sources -- vital sources of funding in a time of cutbacks in state funding. In a typical year, over sixty such grants are submitted and over forty administered. You can request more information from us via e-mail: iis at berkeley.edu. Please note that grant assistance is available only to UC Berkeley faculty.

More information on grants for Berkeley faculty can be found at UC Berkeley's Sponsored Projects Office.